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Price discrimination: BT broadband offers low price deal for families on Universal Credit
6th May 2021
Low-income customers in receipt of Universal Credit are set to receive a 50% discount on fibre broadband packages.
This is a good applied example of price discrimination with a supplier charging a lower price to those with a reduced ability to pay for what is essentially the same service. However, it will be interesting to see if this is enough to encourage its uptake - much depends as we know on the coefficient of price elasticity of demand! Will loyal customers get good deals too?
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